Bullshit. Your games suck so hard people have to bribe you extra just to squeeze some fucking entertainment out of them. That's not a "plus." That's highway robbery. You don't give a shit about players' "enjoyment." You just feel entitled to all of their money.
I think it would be much more entertaining if gaming CEOs were forced to do quarterly Twitch streams with no moderation. They have to sit in their gamer chair and be relentlessly cyberbullied for 2 hours and spammed with TTS superchats of the 14 words, clips of Ronnie McNutt and the Duck Tales Theme (Nigger Edition).
The gaming industry is so weird in a business sense because it constantly seems that their entire management class has never taken any basic business lessons. Always amazes me that their management has zero business common sense.
The problem is more that a lot of the CEOs and marketing people come from different industries and don't understand (and refuse to learn) that video games don't work the way most other products do.
ubisoft is capable of making a good game. most of their games post idk 2018 tend to suffer from wasted potential syndrome. like they have interesting concepts, just terrible execution. wd legion and ac valhalla should not have been as mid as they were. this is likely the result of too much greed and not wanting to take on huge risk making their products. nevermind without risk we wouldn't have had things like watch dogs or assassins creed in the first place
It is amazing how many great ideas they have, but the end product is the same exact sterile, boring open world slop as they made a hundred times already. Every single time, no exceptions, even The Crew which is the catalyst for SKG movement was a victim of this, where the game tried to be the most generic driving game imaginable with a forgettable story that shouldn't even be there, but the concept shined thru and the game was worth playing regardless. At best, this is what a Ubisoft game is, worth playing for the concept alone even if the game isn't actually good. You know, until they shut it down.
Maybe a decade ago, certainly not today. I can't even recall the last decent game they've published. Anno 1800?
Which are post poster children for wasted potential. WD should have leaned all into being an urban vigilante (instead of the gay as fuck protagonist and story we are saddled with), and AssCreed just went nowhere exciting - it never fully grasped its identity and the best game in the whole franchise (AC4) had the AssCreed part of it grated onto it like a malignant tumor.
I'd say they're more like Spoony. They were good a couple console generations ago, but now they wouldn't even know where to start making good content so instead they blame everyone but themselves for their repeated failures.
If you scrape away the woke crap Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was a decent first attempt at making a metroidvania in the PoP universe.
It's crazy how this has affected most western studios.
im playing through far cry 5 which i got on sale (gold edition included far cry 3) and its not a 100% perfect game but im having fun with it which is more than i can say with legion or valhalla
The Game Industry, for whatever reason, has attracted complete idiots. The fact Michael Pachter still has a job is proof enough of this.
A big problem IMO is that the development process has become too transparent. The marketing starts at announcement and people immediately begin picking things apart. You can't axe a project or shuffle around departments without everyone noticing.
It's no coincidence that the best games of 2020s are made by AA studios of 50 people or less. (Expedition 33, Disco: Elysium, hell even shit like Helldivers 2 and Palworld.) I think the only exception to the rule thus far might be Doom: Eternal and that's probably because id is still somewhat staffed by competents.
Maybe I'm wrong but I thought that it turned out that there were actually a shit-load more than just 33 people on E33, its just that they were all support studios and other outsiders that the main team chose to pretend didn't publicly exist?
